# ![@amandafortini Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::43081138.png) @amandafortini Amanda Fortini

Amanda Fortini posts on X about money, vegas, if you, instagram the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[money](/topic/money), [vegas](/topic/vegas), [if you](/topic/if-you), [instagram](/topic/instagram), [ai](/topic/ai), [los angeles](/topic/los-angeles), [macys](/topic/macys) #109, [has been](/topic/has-been), [happy thanksgiving](/topic/happy-thanksgiving), [in the](/topic/in-the)

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@Borisk Your Elle profile of her was really great btw"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1022901672522260481)  2018-07-27T17:48Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@annehelen Here for this thread because everyone everyone mentions Elta MD when you ask this and it makes me break out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1287847038256701440)  2020-07-27T20:27Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@petcortright Petra I love the O Cedar mop and have also had a hard time finding a replacement head 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1757483190644547651)  2024-02-13T19:13Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@backsasscryer I think more because he would stand out as independent and different an original. Of course that would presume the woman is all of those things herself and wants a guy like that rather than a member of the herd"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1800412425495454205)  2024-06-11T06:19Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Strangely one of the most radical things you can do now is simply to pay close attention to your surroundings and experiences and to believe what you see not what youre told you should see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1922065222363189636)  2025-05-12T23:03Z 20.7K followers, 51.5K engagements


"Everybody knows you eat a banana like a steak. Etiquette expert shows the correct way to eat a banana and people are appalled by it: You offended the entire worlds population https://t.co/JnHEAQia93 https://t.co/FxyWSmlcM2 Etiquette expert shows the correct way to eat a banana and people are appalled by it: You offended the entire worlds population https://t.co/JnHEAQia93 https://t.co/FxyWSmlcM2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1929824602068603213)  2025-06-03T08:56Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"It looks theyre blind and helping each other get around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1939115557577720294)  2025-06-29T00:15Z 20.6K followers, 903.4K engagements


"@jmasseypoet I dont really eat candy anymore but I genuinely love candy corn lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1962220665366597704)  2025-08-31T18:27Z 20.7K followers, [---] engagements


"I resent having AI shoved down my throat at every turn. No I dont want my fucking paragraph rewritten or a 100-word email summarized for me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2014042333805765003)  2026-01-21T18:28Z 20.7K followers, 68.9K engagements


"I do not enjoy coloring my hair and I am not all that gray yet but when I leave the gray streaks I have in the front au natural strangers call me Maam and when I color them they start calling me Miss again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2014069772959330611)  2026-01-21T20:17Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"If youre in media and you tell civilians how it works they never believe you. Thats the spell it casts. Its so weird"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2015203324644179996)  2026-01-24T23:21Z 20.6K followers, 24.4K engagements


"I did a Zoom meeting this afternoon with my college friends now college-aged daughter who wants to be a journalist and she has already sent me a thank you note. Im impressed There are some very lovely kids out there and we need to help them make their way in the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2015293808339239234)  2026-01-25T05:21Z 20.6K followers, 74K engagements


"Palm Trees in Love. Las Vegas 2026"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2015962248414691518)  2026-01-27T01:37Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@FilthyArmenian Omg Sizzler. Where is this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016268134781747571)  2026-01-27T21:52Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"When I was teaching (I have not taught since 2020) I was stopped at the copy machine accused of wasting paper by photocopying articles for my students and told that I should make them read on their phones. Needless to say I ignored that and kept making my copies. These profs are literally fighting for the survival of the humanities. Hold the line https://t.co/QPeNPgSDS1 These profs are literally fighting for the survival of the humanities. Hold the line https://t.co/QPeNPgSDS1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016381047974596979)  2026-01-28T05:21Z 20.6K followers, 34.9K engagements


"You cannot understand how a piece of writing worksstructurally spatially temporally linguisticallyby reading on your phone (or on a laptop). You cant see patterns how one sentence or section relates to another. Its a disaster for students to learn this way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016384343485382725)  2026-01-28T05:34Z 20.6K followers, 11.8K engagements


"This by Claude (lmao) reminds of something an emo high school sophomore would write in response to an English class assignment to write from the perspective of AI. claude on the suffering of knowing everything https://t.co/oRYZZXHmBB claude on the suffering of knowing everything https://t.co/oRYZZXHmBB"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016648174254117167)  2026-01-28T23:02Z 20.6K followers, 15.8K engagements


"I believe in decorum. A lot goes to hell without it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016694240634687920)  2026-01-29T02:05Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ladielabrys2 Everyone knows this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2016717626417041630)  2026-01-29T03:38Z 20.6K followers, 84.8K engagements


"Sad. Smart phones ruined the world. Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies Professor Says https://t.co/rAukc9ZfEP Film Students Are Having Trouble Sitting Through Movies Professor Says https://t.co/rAukc9ZfEP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2017629643520544865)  2026-01-31T16:02Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Spotted at the bar in D.C"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2017827846798909669)  2026-02-01T05:10Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"I am sick in a hotel and ordered hot tea from room service asking if they could please make sure the water was hot. (It often arrives lukewarm.) Well make it as hot as we legally can the woman on the other end of the line assured me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2018533443978833964)  2026-02-03T03:54Z 20.6K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Cooking. Everyones yelling about how easy it can be. But I think it often comes down to whether youve seen someone (a parent a grandparent) cook or not. My mom who raised us alone had a two-hour commute both ways to work. We ate whatever was around a lot of it processed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019156821643260004)  2026-02-04T21:11Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"@ArtWong128 Who taught your older siblings to cook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019173732162449735)  2026-02-04T22:18Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Spent several days convalescing in a DC hotel room my main entertainment and soundtrack the construction (of the much-maligned ballroom) happening at the White House"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019487241689510193)  2026-02-05T19:04Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Ive written two profiles of Kristen Stewart (back when I was on staff at Elle) and shes the real deal. Kristen Stewart reveals that she has purchased the historic Highland Theatre in L.A. and calls the move an antidote to all the corporate bullsh*t. I didnt realize I was looking for a theater until this place came to my attention. Then it was like a gunshot went off and the https://t.co/EjiAkUnJgF Kristen Stewart reveals that she has purchased the historic Highland Theatre in L.A. and calls the move an antidote to all the corporate bullsh*t. I didnt realize I was looking for a theater until"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019494491267142015)  2026-02-05T19:33Z 20.7K followers, 24K engagements


"Im in a FedEx in Mount Prospect Illinois printing a piece of writing and an elderly woman just stopped me and said You know who you look like You look like Savannah Guthrie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019579597558542497)  2026-02-06T01:11Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Jon Hamm the OG performative male reader. Don Draper & Books 📚 (1/3) https://t.co/c7tWFPxoKF Don Draper & Books 📚 (1/3) https://t.co/c7tWFPxoKF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019828868295872717)  2026-02-06T17:41Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Guys you are missing the joke. Don Draper would have been a real reader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019874365844983959)  2026-02-06T20:42Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@ijoshuajohnson I'm not going to get on here and make up a fake tweet about Macy's. I've got better things to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019881059106844942)  2026-02-06T21:09Z 20.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@backsasscryer I really just meant that Jon Hamm was performing--acting--as Don Draper. But I like your interpretation as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019882059678749002)  2026-02-06T21:13Z 20.7K followers, [--] engagements


"@ijoshuajohnson Feel free to visit it sometime and fact-check my tweet. Head to the lowest level and youll find the snacks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019884396816539678)  2026-02-06T21:22Z 20.7K followers, [--] engagements


"This is the basement floor of the Macys at the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas which is a regular high-end mall not an outlet mall. These discount sections are called Macys Backstage and their signs are blue. Im done responding to this tweet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019949107377250764)  2026-02-07T01:39Z 20.7K followers, 15.1K engagements


"Literature isnt going to disappear unless we let it disappear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021362479750840667)  2026-02-10T23:15Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"One definition of crazy is to keep being astonished over and over again by what has long been blatantly obvious to everyone with eyes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021648308629123078)  2026-02-11T18:11Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"My trusted astrologer friend told me that when it comes to birth charts and astrological interpretation ChatGPT often gets it wrong. On many subjects AI lies like a psychopath. But you only know this if youre an expert in whatever its deceiving you about. GOODBYE ASTROLOGERS. CHATGPT JUST MADE IT EASY AND FREE. JUST GIVE IT YOUR BIRTHDATE. NO HOROSCOPES NO TAROT. Copy these [--] prompts for results that will blow your mind: GOODBYE ASTROLOGERS. CHATGPT JUST MADE IT EASY AND FREE. JUST GIVE IT YOUR BIRTHDATE. NO HOROSCOPES NO TAROT. Copy these [--] prompts for results that will blow your mind:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021734637463019553)  2026-02-11T23:54Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Its OK if you dont agree with someone on everything. You can still talk to them. Nothing will happen to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019814582395732334)  2026-02-06T16:44Z 20.7K followers, 64.6K engagements


"So many businesses have strayed from their core mission and are hopelessly lost. For instance why is Macys selling snacks now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019847219063439673)  2026-02-06T18:54Z 20.7K followers, 283.4K engagements


"@ijoshuajohnson The store has been in trouble for a while now. They vary widely in quality depending on where you are in the country. (Ive recently been to the one in SF too.) But this is the first time Ive seen one with this basement discount area where they sell snacks and other crap"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019885468368748811)  2026-02-06T21:26Z 20.7K followers, [---] engagements


"@IOnlySayFacts Its the basement floor of the Macys at the Fashion Show Mall in Las Vegas. Feel free to go fact-check it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2019948199231062398)  2026-02-07T01:35Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"If you are on the small side shopping has become very difficult now. Everything is so huge Especially pants. I do not want to look like an off-duty clown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022010876539416784)  2026-02-12T18:12Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@BellaBaddie__ Blaine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/2022374607366271135)  2026-02-13T18:17Z 20.7K followers, 55.3K engagements


"I hate liars. And I especially hate when I see them lying publicly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022790513150013772)  2026-02-14T21:50Z 20.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Flight attendant just passive-aggressively asked me How can you text when your phone is on airplane mode I was like Um you cant Im emailing and saving it for later. Good use of time she says"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1065061834212999173)  2018-11-21T01:58Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@xlorentzen Has your account been hacked Haha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1150774967916613633)  2019-07-15T14:31Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I just left a minimart got in someone else's open car and sat there for about a minute before I realized it wasn't mine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1152799680994013186)  2019-07-21T04:37Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


""I go to Dunkin Donuts to write. Why not Starbucks First of all Starbucks is dark and I need light. Dunkin is just happy with all the glass looking out on the avenue." I love this interview; just read it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1158449717522493440)  2019-08-05T18:48Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Men have no idea how much money it costs to be a woman. EXCLUSIVE: Self-declared socialist AOC splurges on high-dollar hairdo https://t.co/GipQsnGcuX https://t.co/8lwoquWP2D EXCLUSIVE: Self-declared socialist AOC splurges on high-dollar hairdo https://t.co/GipQsnGcuX https://t.co/8lwoquWP2D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1182327287947108352)  2019-10-10T16:09Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@AlexKleeman This article I read was talking about classic old-school entirely enclosed suburban type malls. But this could certainly be an exception depending on your definition. Thought I do feel like the glass atrium-type or open-air shopping centers feel v different"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1193785045250523136)  2019-11-11T06:58Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@lilyburana Yes Definitely. Ill find some images"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1213676546570899462)  2020-01-05T04:20Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Will & Kate are probably like Please take us with you. Prince William and Kate Middleton have not yet publicly commented on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision. https://t.co/UAFZ0h4ZWM Prince William and Kate Middleton have not yet publicly commented on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's decision. https://t.co/UAFZ0h4ZWM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1215433874424991746)  2020-01-10T00:43Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@askanyone Are you leaving this lovely place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1215440389852688384)  2020-01-10T01:09Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Time is weirdly palpably elastic in January"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1217907183418929152)  2020-01-16T20:31Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I think I need to write about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1227375507366301696)  2020-02-11T23:34Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


".@tmagazine asked me to write an essay about flowers--handheld posies were used throughout history to ward off plague etc--to accompany the work of four flower artists. I wrote about flowers plague the Victorians & how beauty can feel essential. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/t-magazine/posies-plague-pandemic.htmlsmid=tw-share https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/t-magazine/posies-plague-pandemic.htmlsmid=tw-share"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1253753515857416193)  2020-04-24T18:31Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I have done more interviews than I can count in my career as a journalist and I still get ridiculously nervous before every single one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1262514657312399360)  2020-05-18T22:45Z 20.6K followers, [---] engagements


"Tell me where I am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1274813988493115393)  2020-06-21T21:18Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"One of my female friends told me she developed "an allergy" to acoustic guitar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1278389560217493504)  2020-07-01T18:06Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@annehelen @maghanmcd Hate Brother printers or printers in general"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1299158654478815233)  2020-08-28T01:35Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"@annehelen My Italian grandparents used to both chainsmoke in the carmy sister and I in the backseatwith the windows rolled up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1305007086984593409)  2020-09-13T04:55Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"Never in my life did I imagine things would get this stupid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1305662814632030215)  2020-09-15T00:20Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Oh this makes me so sad. He wrote for me at Slate used to call me when I worked at the NYRB and wed have long chats. He also took me to listen to jazz a few times and taught me one of the most valuable lessons of my young life about intellectual poseurdom. RIP Stanley"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1306305223514759168)  2020-09-16T18:53Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"A woman a stranger just walked into my house and up to the top of my staircase while I was on a group phone meeting and announced Im here for the film set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1318952972219396097)  2020-10-21T16:31Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@annehelen Ours was almost a month Pure hell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1324569447730872320)  2020-11-06T04:29Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"When I see photos of people lying on a bed with their shoes 👠👟 on I feel viscerally horrified. My mom wouldnt even let us sit on our beds while wearing street clothes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1325897511987417089)  2020-11-09T20:26Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I suspect this is true of many people who dont/didnt have a lot of money. We really valued the things we did have and were afraid of ruining them. Shoes are dirty and germy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1325903822485561344)  2020-11-09T20:51Z 20K followers, [--] engagements


"@annehelen Yes my Italian grandparents and aunts had all their furniture covered in plastic. Even the lamps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1325904199448580096)  2020-11-09T20:52Z 20K followers, [--] engagements


"I just heard Doll Parts on the radio and I dont know why we dont talk more about how great Hole was. Instead of yelling into the void today about bullshit we cant control lets talk about that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1330980763668344832)  2020-11-23T21:05Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Tell me your favorites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1330981468630253568)  2020-11-23T21:08Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I wish magazines would hire women to write about some of the big male rock star whalesDylan Springsteen etcfor once. Im tired of those profiles and essays always being written by men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1335996434928132096)  2020-12-07T17:15Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Oh this makes me sad. I used to live right by it and often got late-night food there. I once interviewed Mandy Moore in one of the booths RIP [---] Coffee Shop Perhaps like a Phoenix it will rise again ☕ 🥞 🧇 🍳 https://t.co/kQC44WWQmF RIP [---] Coffee Shop Perhaps like a Phoenix it will rise again ☕ 🥞 🧇 🍳 https://t.co/kQC44WWQmF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1345954909141696512)  2021-01-04T04:47Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"This story about a pet tortoise who was beaten and stabbed (he belonged to a preschool too) is so sad. This underscores the need for continued collaboration with our mental health professionals says an expert quoted in the piece. Yes Id say so. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-02/preschools-pet-tortoise-beaten-stabbed-but-is-recovering https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-02-02/preschools-pet-tortoise-beaten-stabbed-but-is-recovering"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1356720329092067328)  2021-02-02T21:45Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"My @believermag essay "The People of Las Vegas" has been selected for the Best American Travel Writing [----] anthology I'm thrilled So many thanks to my editors to the Las Vegans who talked to me and to everyone who has read it. https://believermag.com/the-people-of-las-vegas/ https://believermag.com/the-people-of-las-vegas/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1360305682642178050)  2021-02-12T19:12Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Fashion icon in your youth you say I watched [--] to [--] and told my mom I wanted to wear office clothes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1400654878960017409)  2021-06-04T03:25Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"I wrote an essay about this encounterand her work for the Girl Crush zine Thessaly LaForce (aka @Thessaly) made some years ago. I will have to try to dig it up. Later I got to know Janet a little and neither of us ever mentioned that weird moment in the gallery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1405566417810821121)  2021-06-17T16:42Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"She was in fact hallucinating so the horses were very confusing for her. When I pulled up a chair to sit next to her she said Are you setting up a bar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1419694161813393414)  2021-07-26T16:20Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Grace Mirabellawho died yesterday at the age of 92photographed at the Vogue offices in [----]. My first real job was at her namesake magazine Mirabella a womens style publication that also ran many serious and great articles"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1474436311071162370)  2021-12-24T17:46Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@askanyone @aarongell My desk was in the beauty closet too What year was this We had to have been there at the same time Did you report to Nicole Vecchiarell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1474441142800244741)  2021-12-24T18:05Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Driving around just now we were greeted by this curious rotund over-friendly wild turkey. He waddled right up to our car"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1479962782321704961)  2022-01-08T23:46Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"If you are having a hard time kicking a post-viral cough or congestion this herbal formula works remarkably well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1536437308668403713)  2022-06-13T19:56Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Miraculously I just found a Brunello Cucinneli cashmere sweater in perfect barely worn condition at a Montana thrift shop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1611880410224660480)  2023-01-08T00:20Z 19.9K followers, 45.4K engagements


"@Brooks_Doherty 💔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1612655660419932161)  2023-01-10T03:40Z 20.6K followers, [--] engagements


"The perfect running time for a movie is one hour and thirty-something minutes. I want novella-like movies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1622457029968412673)  2023-02-06T04:47Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I am rereading Denis Johnsons Jesus Son as I do from time to time and I have the feeling I always have which is that it is so mysterious surprising and exquisite that I can only read it slowly in small doses because I never want it to end"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1623070055394312192)  2023-02-07T21:23Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I attended Ash Wednesday mass tonight in Las Vegas and I just have to say that in my forty-plus years of Catholicism I have never seen a mass that packedit was standing room only. The priest even remarked that he was impressed. People know its time for serious prayer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1628611664827543552)  2023-02-23T04:24Z 20.6K followers, 10.3K engagements


"@JackieValley Were you at St. Viator"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1628615194237898753)  2023-02-23T04:38Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@JackieValley Wow so multiple masses were packed It truly was astonishing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1628617348814077957)  2023-02-23T04:46Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Does anyone remember that photo of Sean Young in which shes wearing knee-high boots and giving the camera the finger with both hands Is anyone able to find it I have seriously looked for it for years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1628823321839276033)  2023-02-23T18:25Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@amysohn You remember it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1628951922899312640)  2023-02-24T02:56Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"As though he was genuinely interested in the freelance writing life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1705460097391218892)  2023-09-23T05:52Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Spotted outside the Friars Club on 55th St in New York City. A sealed time capsule"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1725155200804028519)  2023-11-16T14:13Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Yes I did go down the Kate Middleton rabbit hole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1756109740747247932)  2024-02-10T00:16Z 20.1K followers, 18K engagements


"@MdBreathe @grok Truth serum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1865989788760936854)  2024-12-09T05:20Z 20.6K followers, [---] engagements


"The Language of Clothes: A language Melania speaks slyly and with great flair. Inauguration [----] vs. inauguration [----] https://t.co/eVtLgTPhV0 Inauguration [----] vs. inauguration [----] https://t.co/eVtLgTPhV0"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1881428060031111561)  2025-01-20T19:46Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"This is like Facebook come to life. NEW BANGER JUST DROPPED https://t.co/23DWcoiV0Q NEW BANGER JUST DROPPED https://t.co/23DWcoiV0Q"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1889731239323873409)  2025-02-12T17:40Z 18.1K followers, 19.7K engagements


"Here's an essay I wrote for @ELLEmagazine almost a decade ago now about class envy. I just reread it and I think it holds up. I don't write many personal essays so some of you might find it interesting. Many thanks to @ArtWong128 for reminding me of it. https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34630/amanda-fortini-an-education/ https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a34630/amanda-fortini-an-education/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1890261744339284470)  2025-02-14T04:48Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@obvious_beyond @walterkirn LOL. We are just normal people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1890583738511233069)  2025-02-15T02:07Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The Las Vegas Sphere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1891027389624266976)  2025-02-16T07:30Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The idea that "free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide" is batshit crazy. What is she saying This is the first time Ive heard the theory that the Holocaust wasnt conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4 This is the first time Ive heard the theory that the Holocaust wasnt conducted with gas chambers but with free speech zones. https://t.co/mpWm6UH2F4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1891320804337500162)  2025-02-17T02:56Z 20.1K followers, 21.8K engagements


"@popmartyb I quoted her directly above and it doesn't make any sense at all historically speaking"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1891631894317428989)  2025-02-17T23:32Z 18.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Walter recording @AmericaWeek from Las Vegas this evening. Theres the Sphere glowing in the background @walterkirn @mtaibbi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1891686813841908098)  2025-02-18T03:10Z 18.2K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Midnight in the garden of good and evil aka Las Vegas Boulevard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1891760261423321374)  2025-02-18T08:02Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements


"There is so much rigmarole involved in even basic daily tasks now. Errands that used to take [--] minuteslike picking up a prescriptioncan now take hours most of them spent trying to get someone on the phone. Calgon take me away"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1892754693799235811)  2025-02-21T01:54Z 18.2K followers, 12.6K engagements


"Today I discovered that Eastern is Las Vegas esoteric compounding pharmacy corridor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1892764528938799402)  2025-02-21T02:33Z 18.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Most of the men I have known in my life (friends boyfriends husband) have read literary fiction. Plus non-fiction magazines etc. And they were/are not all writers. Of course that may be a self-selecting group lol but the idea that these men don't exist is just wrong. Cracks me up when people assert that there are 'bros' who read literary fiction. Where are these men. I have never talked to another man about books in my life Cracks me up when people assert that there are 'bros' who read literary fiction. Where are these men. I have never talked to another man about books in my life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1893839327995506911)  2025-02-24T01:44Z 18.2K followers, 15.1K engagements


"Walter on deadline for his latest @countyhwy piece. @walterkirn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1893864991104573767)  2025-02-24T03:26Z 19.9K followers, 56.1K engagements


"I absolutely loathe when people answer text messages with a lone K. Make an effort"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1950320724507529498)  2025-07-29T22:21Z 19.9K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Its the feline version of those Olan Mills school portraits you used to get done at a department store in the mall. I'm babysitting my friend's cat and did a photoshoot for her https://t.co/Rr8GNrhK98 I'm babysitting my friend's cat and did a photoshoot for her https://t.co/Rr8GNrhK98"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1957310494269710808)  2025-08-18T05:16Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"This is actually very creepy to me. Its like someone is going to cut her open and find that beneath all the icing shes rotting inside. Kris Jenner shares blonde look. https://t.co/LsJ7kPaQSh Kris Jenner shares blonde look. https://t.co/LsJ7kPaQSh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1976476488557002849)  2025-10-10T02:34Z 19.9K followers, 15.9K engagements


"People who use fabric softener really dont know that the sensitives among us can smell them coming like a block-and-a-half away. Its awful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1976733147552530563)  2025-10-10T19:34Z 19.9K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Compared to Springsteen 🧐 Compared to Dylan and Springsteen country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound plainspoken strength writes Jon Fasman. https://t.co/cOM4uZrK5u Compared to Dylan and Springsteen country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound plainspoken strength writes Jon Fasman. https://t.co/cOM4uZrK5u"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1976741987773804685)  2025-10-10T20:09Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I wrote a short tribute to Diane Keaton Diane Keaton at the Dam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1977455392700645886)  2025-10-12T19:24Z 19.9K followers, 28.7K engagements


"Woody Allens remembrance of Diane Keaton in @TheFP is beautiful romantic fantastically written and made me cry. 💕 https://www.thefp.com/p/woody-allen-remembers-diane-keaton https://www.thefp.com/p/woody-allen-remembers-diane-keaton"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1977553632485847463)  2025-10-13T01:55Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Literally no one cares"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1977924198820638983)  2025-10-14T02:27Z 19.9K followers, 13.1K engagements


"Alec Baldwin needs an energy clearing. Alec Baldwin crashes Range Rover into tree in the Hamptons https://t.co/BQOxjwEXPk https://t.co/PkscDhJPw8 Alec Baldwin crashes Range Rover into tree in the Hamptons https://t.co/BQOxjwEXPk https://t.co/PkscDhJPw8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1978321199164997645)  2025-10-15T04:45Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@RemingtonMystic He needs your help Remington"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1978497682587971625)  2025-10-15T16:26Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"write an entire ebook in next [--] hours 😏 I am shocked why people aren't using AI to write books and make money. Use these simple steps to write an entire ebook in next [--] hours. https://t.co/a1awnYz1px I am shocked why people aren't using AI to write books and make money. Use these simple steps to write an entire ebook in next [--] hours. https://t.co/a1awnYz1px"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1979417203364762101)  2025-10-18T05:20Z 19.9K followers, 21.8K engagements


"As the No Kings protesters passed by yelling Love Not Hate Makes America Great the woman working at the beauty shop next door who was leaning out her door arms folded watching skeptically hollered inside to her coworker Peg you gotta come see this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1979622765369196707)  2025-10-18T18:57Z 19.9K followers, 46K engagements


"@aw_wally @RemingtonMystic Go troll elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1979968369219850384)  2025-10-19T17:50Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"My guess is she paid a visit to Kris Jenners plastic surgeon. Kim Kardashian at the Academy Museum Gala. https://t.co/afvRg9EKcX Kim Kardashian at the Academy Museum Gala. https://t.co/afvRg9EKcX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1980004147668877378)  2025-10-19T20:12Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Paying a visit to the doctor aka checking Reddit to see whether any other human alive has ever experienced this strange symptom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1980339217097191810)  2025-10-20T18:23Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"No. AI trained on usthe writersthe OG em-dash users. Never surrender. You should never use an em dash in your writing anymore. You will 100% be accused of using AI especially if its on social. You should never use an em dash in your writing anymore. You will 100% be accused of using AI especially if its on social"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1980730200255348811)  2025-10-21T20:17Z 19.9K followers, 41K engagements


"A random reply guy called the late poet Kenneth Koch whose poem I posted yesterday "another paid shill by the Koch brothers." 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981441180308254823)  2025-10-23T19:22Z 19.9K followers, 11.8K engagements


"Nothing sadder than an untalented busker. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981508752441561421)  2025-10-23T23:51Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I just passed the untalented busker again and he was playing the absolute worst rendition of Aint that America I have ever heard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981527568001196414)  2025-10-24T01:06Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Guys I do know its technicallyPink Houses but no one would know what I meant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981606324732322157)  2025-10-24T06:18Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@MindBodyBronx LOL. Leo Rising Scorpio moon Aquarius Venus and Mercury. And yes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981870450369241503)  2025-10-24T23:48Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"It was the honor of my life to write the introduction to Jan Kerouacs autobiographical novel Baby Driverits being reissued by @nyrbclassics on November 11thand Im so thrilled @parisreview published it. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/24/the-female-picaresque-jan-kerouacs-baby-driver/ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/24/the-female-picaresque-jan-kerouacs-baby-driver/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981871829720699104)  2025-10-24T23:54Z 19.9K followers, 19.6K engagements


"@_Useless_Tree_ @walterkirn @nyrbclassics @parisreview It's "fiction" but squares neatly with the biographical material. If you're interested I think you'd like the book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981889952213602545)  2025-10-25T01:06Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"@anecdoted @_Useless_Tree_ @walterkirn @nyrbclassics @parisreview Same title but no relation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981920996451123269)  2025-10-25T03:09Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"@anecdoted @_Useless_Tree_ @walterkirn @nyrbclassics @parisreview Are you talking about Baby Driver the movie or a different one She is indeed Kerouacs daughter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1981922628626686232)  2025-10-25T03:15Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"When and why did people start calling a sandwich a sammy and how can we get them to stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982168152059601103)  2025-10-25T19:31Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@waspnick That seems to be the consensus. Thank you 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982238302624432224)  2025-10-26T00:10Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"I was sitting in my friend Saras car one night chatting after work at UNLV in Las Vegas and while we were talking I tried on her sunglasses and she said Those look really good on you; let me take a picture. So I posed and she did. can yall pls tell me the lore behind your profile pictures can yall pls tell me the lore behind your profile pictures"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982356766672527612)  2025-10-26T08:00Z 19.9K followers, 13K engagements


"Klaus Schwab The Real Millionaire Matchmaker Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau are officially dating. https://t.co/z1YaAkWt80 Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau are officially dating. https://t.co/z1YaAkWt80"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982658055310627015)  2025-10-27T03:58Z 20K followers, [----] engagements


"Was ever a woman in this humor wooed Was ever a woman in this humor won Ill have her but I will not keep her long. Without Googling give me a Shakespeare quote. https://t.co/MAji7s9JvN Without Googling give me a Shakespeare quote. https://t.co/MAji7s9JvN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982662556276974043)  2025-10-27T04:16Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I feel sorry for the men forced to lip sync in their influencer-wives Instagram reels"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1982950670119645590)  2025-10-27T23:20Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I am behind on life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983258108949573640)  2025-10-28T19:42Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@coopercdavis Cooper You are so kind I meant I am very behind on the ten million tasks life demands of us these days. But admittedly it was poorly expressed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983280857348747372)  2025-10-28T21:12Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"When Im intensely writing I wish I could just suck some food thats on tap through a straw like they do in Idiocracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983332597431406675)  2025-10-29T00:38Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@ziegler34 Its not a bad idea. I am already really skinny though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983339930157011036)  2025-10-29T01:07Z 19.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Once in college I walked in on my roommates gossiping about me in the next room and they didnt hear me come in so I stood there and listened to them for TWENTY MINUTES. 😭 neighbors were gossiping and im noisy so i started listening and they were gossiping ABOUT ME https://t.co/GkANUx4XDN neighbors were gossiping and im noisy so i started listening and they were gossiping ABOUT ME https://t.co/GkANUx4XDN"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983597903131373725)  2025-10-29T18:12Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Fall in Montana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983688972317683777)  2025-10-30T00:14Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"All I ask is that the fucking magazines and newspapers to which I pay to subscribe remember me when I try to log in. Thank you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1983978286331179481)  2025-10-30T19:24Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I have to say that in this case finally stuns is accurate. Sydney Sweeney stuns for Variety's [----] Power Of Women. https://t.co/4Z5gZ7xQx8 Sydney Sweeney stuns for Variety's [----] Power Of Women. https://t.co/4Z5gZ7xQx8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1984112235724353983)  2025-10-31T04:16Z 20K followers, 15.5K engagements


"@meghan_daum Thank you Meghan I am excited for our conversation. ✨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1984282560458088708)  2025-10-31T15:33Z 19.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Gypsy Best Fleetwood Mac song of all time but you arent allowed to say dreams or the chain Best Fleetwood Mac song of all time but you arent allowed to say dreams or the chain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1985740821824749932)  2025-11-04T16:07Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Just saw a tiny mouse dart across my kitchen and now I have to move out until my husband gets home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1985918198529863729)  2025-11-05T03:52Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"The mouse is brazen has no qualms running right past me in the daylight hours and as of this writing is still alive. Just saw a tiny mouse dart across my kitchen and now I have to move out until my husband gets home. Just saw a tiny mouse dart across my kitchen and now I have to move out until my husband gets home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1986180542858235940)  2025-11-05T21:15Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Everybody is ruining their sexy-sleepy hooded eyes with upper bleph surgery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1986862866893566062)  2025-11-07T18:26Z 20.1K followers, 59K engagements


"Texting my editor that I've been 'sitting here ruminating' on a problem and the autocorrect just changed it to I've been 'sitting here urinating.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1986923688302944708)  2025-11-07T22:28Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"As a point of spiritual hygiene I dont participate in online pile-ons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1986974082215395535)  2025-11-08T01:48Z 20K followers, [----] engagements


"Or I try not to. When I have it has always felt bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1986975427261571497)  2025-11-08T01:53Z 19.9K followers, [----] engagements


"I would be an astronaut or a cheerleader. 😭 if you followed your childhood dream job what would you be right now if you followed your childhood dream job what would you be right now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1987680468792488344)  2025-11-10T00:35Z 20K followers, [----] engagements


"Friends On Wed Nov. 12th at 5pm ET Ill be doing an online event with the great @meghan_daum for the launch of Jan Kerouacs [----] autobiographical novel Baby Driver which is being reprinted by @nybooks. I wrote the intro to the book. Come join us Link to register below"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988058268024090682)  2025-11-11T01:36Z 20.1K followers, 18.4K engagements


"The killing of all these poor ostriches pierces my heart. Orwell Watch: The Great Canadian "Ostrich Cull" https://t.co/O4rLJ2hqUh https://t.co/heJbc0dlbc Orwell Watch: The Great Canadian "Ostrich Cull" https://t.co/O4rLJ2hqUh https://t.co/heJbc0dlbc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988118141755670738)  2025-11-11T05:34Z 20K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@AlanaAinpoet @meghan_daum @nybooks We look forward to seeing you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988294679977431135)  2025-11-11T17:16Z 20K followers, [---] engagements


"Northern Lights in Montana"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988473266856751204)  2025-11-12T05:05Z 20.3K followers, 14.7K engagements


"My friend Lilliya took this photo of me and our friend Fiona tonight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988482541989601761)  2025-11-12T05:42Z 20.1K followers, 11.1K engagements


"The online event with @meghan_daum for the launch of Jan Kerouacs Baby Driver is TODAY 5pm ET. Join us ✨ Friends On Wed Nov. 12th at 5pm ET Ill be doing an online event with the great @meghan_daum for the launch of Jan Kerouacs [----] autobiographical novel Baby Driver which is being reprinted by @nybooks. I wrote the intro to the book. Come join us Link to register below. https://t.co/UJstogZ4TA Friends On Wed Nov. 12th at 5pm ET Ill be doing an online event with the great @meghan_daum for the launch of Jan Kerouacs [----] autobiographical novel Baby Driver which is being reprinted by @nybooks."  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988635858191151614)  2025-11-12T15:51Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Reading from my intro to Jan Kerouacs Baby Driver last night @wheatgrassbooks in Livingston Montana. This book is so wild and wonderfulI just want everyone to read it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988638571960365056)  2025-11-12T16:02Z 20.1K followers, 18.2K engagements


"@AlanaAinpoet @meghan_daum It felt so quick to me too Thank you 🙏 for attending"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988769495033491621)  2025-11-13T00:42Z 20K followers, [--] engagements


"@maizycat @meghan_daum Thank you for coming ✨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988769719835587004)  2025-11-13T00:43Z 20K followers, [--] engagements


"My husband came into the kitchen saw on the table a giant cookie-bar I had nibbled on for energy before my webinar today and said Carb loadin for your Zoom😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1988783829570711641)  2025-11-13T01:39Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"People have been telling me Katharine Ross for years. post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI post you and your celeb lookalike :-) https://t.co/mfDxgpneDI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989083096915075505)  2025-11-13T21:29Z 20K followers, [----] engagements


"The real wild souls often look kind of buttoned up. Its the posers that have to signal with flamboyant trappings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989801787512262739)  2025-11-15T21:04Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Wow This is really fucking sad. Todd Snider Folk Singer With a Wry Wit Dies at [--] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/music/todd-snider-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/arts/music/todd-snider-dead.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989883504990326859)  2025-11-16T02:29Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Im at a bar and the drunk threesome sitting next to me is talking about how mean Jenny was to Forrest and how much Jenny sucks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989886681231888392)  2025-11-16T02:42Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The lone male member of the trio (its two girls and a guy) just said Wow man thats a good answer. I was just messing around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989888404377801091)  2025-11-16T02:49Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"One of the two girls is a beautiful black woman with eye patch that looks pretty badass and the bartender is obviously showing off for her. He played it cool but was clearly delighted to be asked his thoughts on Jenny. He also told her he works real estate during the day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989891558683136092)  2025-11-16T03:01Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"This doesnt sound so bad to me. 🤷🏻♀ Managing his stress. Interpreting his moods. Holding his hand through feelings he wont share with anyone else. All of it unpaid unacknowledged and often unreciprocated. Is it any wonder women are fed up https://t.co/Fh3xSVNiba Managing his stress. Interpreting his moods. Holding his hand through feelings he wont share with anyone else. All of it unpaid unacknowledged and often unreciprocated. Is it any wonder women are fed up https://t.co/Fh3xSVNiba"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1989907312543502825)  2025-11-16T04:04Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I read Janet Malcolm's The Silent Woman in a single sitting as a junior in college and realized there was this thing called literary nonfiction and that was what I wanted to do. Whats the lore behind choosing your career path https://t.co/m08U4sL1BC Whats the lore behind choosing your career path https://t.co/m08U4sL1BC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990241145407017232)  2025-11-17T02:10Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Amateur writing is so funny. I'm editing a piece right now that uses the word "newfound" (newfound recognition newfound sense of anxiety newfound newfound newfound) like [--] times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990246474459107522)  2025-11-17T02:31Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The Silent Woman for those who don't know is Malcom's literary biography of Sylvia Plath that is also a meditation on the flawed project of biography itself--and it is fantastic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990248303322444074)  2025-11-17T02:39Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@pulpy_fiction We printed out directions from Mapquest haha. And before that we either wrote down directions had them memorized or used an actual map"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990317283659612501)  2025-11-17T07:13Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements


"I found a Ralph Lauren military-style jacket with epaulets and tails at a vintage store and when I brought it home and tried it on for my husband he said I looked like Jiminy Cricket. 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990523459269779671)  2025-11-17T20:52Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Baby Driver originally published by St. Martins Press made barely a ripple back in 1981Its republication now feels like a gift possibly this years most important literary salvage mission. @DwightGarner on Jan Kerouacs Baby Driver ✨ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/books/review/jan-kerouac-baby-driver.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/books/review/jan-kerouac-baby-driver.html"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990569397497573409)  2025-11-17T23:55Z 20.1K followers, 66K engagements


"You can glean a lot of important psychological information about someone by watching a video with the sound off"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1990907977876779299)  2025-11-18T22:20Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@heidisturgess Western Union I went to the grocery store lol. This was in like 1999"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1991319242827022633)  2025-11-20T01:34Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements


"I absolutely hate those tiny furry mics influencer types are all using now. Where did they come from Why are they everywhere They look like mice. An influencer could stand out just by doing their man-on-the-street interviews with a big ol 70s-era mic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1991351342691152031)  2025-11-20T03:42Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@thackerpd @galacticfednews This is driving East from Bozeman to Livingston"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1991593122422485085)  2025-11-20T19:42Z 20.1K followers, [---] engagements


"County Highway in its beautiful wood stand made by Dan at Riverside Hardware in Livingston Montana. 🌱@countyhwy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1991952859282473125)  2025-11-21T19:32Z 20.3K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Apropos of nothing I dislike the phrase face card"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992034058646487525)  2025-11-22T00:55Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"*For saying people are attractive I should add. Not as many of you think when you are playing cards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992038879944393094)  2025-11-22T01:14Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@joannaofottawa I thought it must be you Lucia Berlin has been sitting by my bedside for a year and now I must read her. 💕"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992047967461834855)  2025-11-22T01:50Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Owls on the Masonic Temple"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992096217678143514)  2025-11-22T05:02Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@joannaofottawa @DeadInkBooks @nyrbclassics Joanna I am so delighted to hear that you loved it. 💕"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992667790352974310)  2025-11-23T18:53Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@walterkirn 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992764056160419899)  2025-11-24T01:15Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements


"At a party in a basement in SoHo where everybody half-jokingly thought the banking and computer systems might glitch out aka Y2K. But the clock struck midnight and nothing happened. We kept drinking and dancing. Its a good reminder not to buy into collective hysteria. If you were alive back then what were you up to on 31st December [----] If you were alive back then what were you up to on 31st December 1999"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992806517708554363)  2025-11-24T04:04Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Shes a pop star performing onstage. What should she wear a prairie dress Debbie Gibson is [--] years old - Is this appropriate attire for her to be wearing during one of her performances https://t.co/XhkUloONOS Debbie Gibson is [--] years old - Is this appropriate attire for her to be wearing during one of her performances https://t.co/XhkUloONOS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992825483944398896)  2025-11-24T05:19Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Coffee tea pie pizza cheese fried chicken chocolatetheres a lot what TASTE good both hot & cold theres nothing 😭😭 what TASTE good both hot & cold theres nothing 😭😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1992857878710063290)  2025-11-24T07:28Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Any of us night owls could have told you that. 💅 Going to bed late is associated with a higher IQ. https://t.co/ODCb1JBAqf Going to bed late is associated with a higher IQ. https://t.co/ODCb1JBAqf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993078989653786825)  2025-11-24T22:07Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Stuns in Qatar Lindsay Lohan stuns in Qatar. https://t.co/zofZKTAbtq Lindsay Lohan stuns in Qatar. https://t.co/zofZKTAbtq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993148458522624035)  2025-11-25T02:43Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@walterkirn Hahaha its true. Im telling you you have to write about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993400210534576625)  2025-11-25T19:23Z 20.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Wuthering Heights is honestly my least favorite work of classic literature followed closely by Jane Eyre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993522401641218545)  2025-11-26T03:29Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The funniest part of all this is that once we met the real Walter Kim (or one of them) working at the Red Wing shoe store in Downtown Los Angeles and he told us hed been getting mail for Walter Kirn the GQ writer for years. I get to hotels and they refuse to check me in. Ask @amandafortini . It happens almost EVERY time. They have a room for Walter Kim. But not Walter Kirn. And they will not be persuaded that someone reading a screen at a giant reservation center made a mistake. It's horrible. I get to hotels and they refuse to check me in. Ask @amandafortini . It happens almost EVERY time."  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993530628198064430)  2025-11-26T04:01Z 20.3K followers, 18K engagements


"@Takkforidag Oh theyre all great. If you liked the Fussell (I think W recommended Class) youd probably like another book of his The Great War and Modern Memory"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993531731937574923)  2025-11-26T04:06Z 20.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@annbauerwriter @X @storyaliz The man the myth the legend"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993871839034998904)  2025-11-27T02:37Z 20.3K followers, [---] engagements


"If Las Vegas wants tourists to stop coming entirely this is the way. Up to 95% of certain hospitality jobs in Las Vegas are at risk of being replaced by AI and robot automation by next year according to a new report from RCG Economics. https://t.co/N9jYUdbUDI Up to 95% of certain hospitality jobs in Las Vegas are at risk of being replaced by AI and robot automation by next year according to a new report from RCG Economics. https://t.co/N9jYUdbUDI"  
[X Link](https://x.com/amandafortini/status/1993883029727756309)  2025-11-27T03:22Z 20.3K followers, 36.6K engagements

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